Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer, January 16, 1880, p. 7. BAD BARNES He Marries a Divorced Wife, Kidnaps Her Child and Is Indicted by the Grand Jury Nashville, Indiana, January 14-A rather novel case has just been disposed of in our circuit court. At the last session of the grand jury of Brown County, Elliott Barnes was indicted for kidnapping a child under the following circumstances: Benoni S. Roberts was a father of a child, and his wife was its mother. The father and mother separated and were divorced, the mother being awarded the custody of her child on account of its tender age, much to the discomfiture of the father who kept a strict surveillance over the mother and child. His opportunity came. It was at a Sabbath school picnic. He discovered his divorced wife in flagrante delicto with a man not then or ever her husband, Elliott Barnes. Benoni at once appeared in court and succeeded in showing that his divorced spouse was not a fit person to have the care of their child, when Judge James S. Hester ordered the child into custody of the sheriff. Since then Judge Hester has died, and Elliott Barnes has become the husband of the divorced wife of Benoni S. Roberts. Barnes, at the request and earnest solicitation of his wife, kidnapped and stole the child away from the sheriff, it whose custody it was, for which Barnes has since been indicted. The case was called today in our circuit court when Judge N. T. Carr held that Judge Hester had no right by law to place the child in the custody of the sheriff. Barnes was released.